henry guinard



(No Model.)

' H. GUINA'RD. HOLLOW GLASSWARE.

Pat'ented NO v. 20, 1894.

Mines ses XW? @ew Umm STATES PATENT OFFICE- HENRY GUINARD, oF NEW-Yoan,-N. Y.'

HOLLOW eLAsswARs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,377,dated November20, 1 894.-"

Application led J'une 21, 1894. Serial llo. 515,241. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be in kmwwhat I, HENRY GUINAR'D, 'of

` New A4York city, New York, have invented an Improvement in HollowGlassware, of lwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement," inthe manufacture of hollowglassware, by

ywhich a durable and perfect article may be produced., F0

a perspective view of a form of wire skeleton In the accompanyingdrawingsz Figure 1 is adapted to be'` embedded within a glass vess el.Fig. 2 is a similar view of a wire skeleton adapted to be embeddedwithin aglass` tube on'pipe.` Fig. 3 is a vertical section of acompletevessel'containing the wire `core shown in Fig-.1n Fig. 4 is a crosssection on line 4, 4, Fig. 2: Fig. 5 is a sectional eleva-` tion of theapparatus for carrying my invention intoeiect, showing the plungerraised.

" Fig. i's a similar view showing the plunger lowered, and Fig. 7'is adetailof the center- .n ing pin m.

'The letter ce, represents a core orv skeleton madeof tubular,cylindrical or such other form as corresponds with the shape of thehollow glassware to bel formed, the character- 1istic of such skeletonbeing that .it constitutes one endless or continuouslycurved body, incontradistinction of being a fiat plate.

- t is` obvious that an infinite variety of shapes-may be imparted tothe skeleton body, y to conform to the various shapesof-hollow orcylinder... d I i At the top the skeleton maybe provided N bottom with asimilar binding wired.`

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Fig. 1, shows a shape adapted fo'r the manufactureof a deep` dish b,while Fig. 2 shows' a shape adapted for the manufacture of a tube witha' continuous binding wire a', and at the 'For the manufacture of jars,pots and other hollow glassware'that have a bottom, the skeleton a, isprovided'with a corresponding bottom as, that may be composed of a.series of radially placed wires. The skeleton thus prepared, is embeddedwithin a hollow glass body j by means ofv the mold A shown in Figs.,5andl 6. This mold isl somewhatv larger than the skeleton a, while theplunger B, issornewhat smaller than such skeleton. The skeleton isproperly centered within the mold and is held at a short distance abovethe bottom by lmeans of suitable pins m,'projecting laterally andl foreor after being placed into the'rnold. Thus the skeleton is properlyheated and chillingv of the molten glass is prevented. The molten glassis now poured into the mold A and th'en the plunger B is caused todescend, so as to press the glass through the meshes ofthe skele-4 tonand embed such skeleton within the glass (Fig. 6). The plunger is thenraised, the connecting wires c, are severed and the glass vesselisremoved and annealed in the usual manner, when it is completed.v v

What Iclaim is- The process of manufacturing hollow glass'- ware whichconsists in centering an endless core of wire netting within a mold,partially lfilling `the mold with glass and pressing the molten glassthrough the wire netting -into a hollow form, while the wire netting isbeing heated, substantially as specified.

, HENRY GUINARD. Witnesses: K

WrLLIAM-SGHULZ,

, FJBRIESEN.

